How can I insert a line break into a <Text> component in React Native?

Question

I want to insert a new line (like \r\n, <br />) in a Text component in React Native.

If I have:

<text>
<br />
Hi~<br />
this is a test message.<br />
</text>

Then React Native renders Hi~ this is a test message.

Is it possible render text to add a new line like so:

Hi~
this is a test message.

Answer 1

This should do it:

<Text>
Hi~{"\n"}
this is a test message.
</Text>

Answer 2

You can also do:

<Text>{`
Hi~
this is a test message.
`}</Text>

Easier in my opinion, because you don't have to insert stuff within the string; just wrap it once and it keeps all your line-breaks.

Answer 3

Use:

<Text>{`Hi,\nCurtis!`}</Text>

Result:

Hi,

Curtis!

Answer 4

If at all you are displaying data from state variables, use this.

<Text>{this.state.user.bio.replace('<br/>', '\n')}</Text>

Answer 5

This worked for me

<Text>{`Hi~\nthis is a test message.`}</Text>

(react-native 0.41.0)

Answer 6

You can use {'\n'} as line breaks. Hi~ {'\n'} this is a test message.

Answer 7

Better yet: if you use styled-components , you can do something like this:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import styled from 'styled-components';

const Text = styled.Text`
  text-align: left;
  font-size: 20px;
`;

export default class extends Component {

 (...)

 render(){
  return (
    <View>
      <Text>{`
        1. line 1
        2. line 2
        3. line 3
      `}</Text>
    </View>
  );
 }

}

Answer 8

I needed a one-line solution branching in a ternary operator to keep my code nicely indented.

{foo ? `First line of text\nSecond line of text` : `Single line of text`}

Sublime syntax highlighting helps highlight the line-break character:

Answer 9

There are two options:

Option 1: Using Template Literals.

const Message = 'This is a message';

<Text>
{`
  Hi~
  ${Message}
`}
</Text>

Result:

Hi~
This is a message

Option 2: Use {'\n'} as line breaks.

<Text>

   Hello {'\n'}

   World!

</Text>

Result:

Hello
World!

Answer 10

You can try using like this

<text>{`${val}\n`}</text>

Answer 11

Simple use backticks (ES 6 feature)

SOLUTION 1

const Message = 'This is a message';

<Text>
{`
  Hi~
  ${Message}
`}
</Text>

SOLUTION 2 Add "\n" in Text

<Text>
Hi~{"\n"}
This is a message.
</Text>

Answer 12

You can use `` like this:

<Text>{`Hi~
this is a test message.`}</Text>

Answer 13

You can do it as follows:

{'Create\nYour Account'}

Answer 14

You can also just add it as a constant in your render method so its easy to reuse:

  render() {
    const br = `\n`;
     return (
        <Text>Capital Street{br}Cambridge{br}CB11 5XE{br}United Kingdom</Text>
     )  
  }

Answer 15

Just put {'\n'} within the Text tag

<Text>

   Hello {'\n'}

   World!

</Text>

Answer 16

One of the cleanest and most flexible way would be using Template Literals.

An advantage of using this is, if you want to display the content of string variable in the text body, it is cleaner and straight forward.

(Please note the usage of backtick characters)

const customMessage = 'This is a test message';
<Text>
{`
  Hi~
  ${customMessage}
`}
</Text>

Would result in

Hi~
This is a test message

Answer 17

https://stackoverflow.com/a/44845810/10480776 @Edison D'souza's answer was exactly what I was looking for. However, it was only replacing the first occurrence of the string. Here was my solution to handling multiple <br/> tags:

<Typography style={{ whiteSpace: "pre-line" }}>
    {shortDescription.split("<br/>").join("\n")}
</Typography>

Sorry, I couldn't comment on his post due to the reputation score limitation.

Answer 18

Here is a solution for React (not React Native) using TypeScript.

The same concept can be applied to React Native

import React from 'react';

type Props = {
  children: string;
  Wrapper?: any;
}

/**
 * Automatically break lines for text
 *
 * Avoids relying on <br /> for every line break
 *
 * @example
 * <Text>
 *   {`
 *     First line
 *
 *     Another line, which will respect line break
 *  `}
 * </Text>
 * @param props
 */
export const Text: React.FunctionComponent<Props> = (props) => {
  const { children, Wrapper = 'div' } = props;

  return (
    <Wrapper style={{ whiteSpace: 'pre-line' }}>
      {children}
    </Wrapper>
  );
};

export default Text;

Usage:

<Text>
  {`
    This page uses server side rendering (SSR)

    Each page refresh (either SSR or CSR) queries the GraphQL API and displays products below:
  `}
</Text>

Displays:

Answer 19

do this:

<Text>

 { "Hi~ \n this is a test message." }

<Text/>

Answer 20

this is a nice question , you can do this in multiple ways First

<View>
    <Text>
        Hi this is first line  {\n}  hi this is second line 
    </Text>
</View>

which means you can use {\n} backslash n to break the line

Second

<View>
     <Text>
         Hi this is first line
     </Text>
     <View>
         <Text>
             hi this is second line 
         </Text>
     </View>
</View>

which means you can use another <View> component inside first <View> and wrap it around <Text> component

Happy Coding

Answer 21

If you're getting your data from a state variable or props, the Text component has a style prop with minWidth, maxWidth.

example

const {height,width} = Dimensions.get('screen');

const string = `This is the description coming from the state variable, It may long thank this` 

<Text style={{ maxWidth:width/2}}>{string}</Text>

This will display text 50% width of your screen

Answer 22

Just use {"\n"} where you want to break the line

Answer 23

In case anyone is looking for a solution where you want to have a new line for each string in an array you could do something like this:

import * as React from 'react';
import { Text, View} from 'react-native';


export default class App extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);

    this.state = {
      description: ['Line 1', 'Line 2', 'Line 3'],
    };
  }

  render() {
    // Separate each string with a new line
    let description = this.state.description.join('\n\n');

    let descriptionElement = (
      <Text>{description}</Text>
    );

    return (
      <View style={{marginTop: 50}}>
        {descriptionElement}
      </View>
    );
  }
}

See snack for a live example: https://snack.expo.io/@cmacdonnacha/react-native-new-break-line-example

Answer 24

Another way to insert <br> between text lines that are defined in an array:

import react, { Fragment } from 'react';

const lines = [
  'One line',
  'Another line',
];

const textContent =
  lines.reduce(items, line, index) => {
    if (index > 0) {
      items.push(<br key={'br-'+index}/>);
    }
    items.push(<Fragment key={'item-'+index}>{line}</Fragment>);
    return items;
  }, []);

Then the text can be used as variable:

<Text>{textContent}</Text>

If not available, Fragment can be defined this way:

const Fragment = (props) => props.children;

Answer 25

This code works on my environment. (react-native 0.63.4)

const charChangeLine = `
`
// const charChangeLine = "\n" // or it is ok

const textWithChangeLine = "abc\ndef"

<Text>{textWithChangeLine.replace('¥n', charChangeLine)}</Text>

Result

abc
def

Answer 26

sometimes I write like this:

<Text>
  You have {" "}
  {remaining}$ {" "}
  from{" "}
  {total}$
<Text>

(as it looks more clear for myself)

Answer 27

2021, this works for a REACT state Value (you have to add empty divs, just like a return statement)

this.setState({form: (<> line 1 <br /> line 2 </>) })

Answer 28

<Text>
Hi~{"\n"}
this is a test message.
</Text>

Answer 29

Why work so hard? it's 2020, create a component to handle this type of issues

    export class AppTextMultiLine extends React.PureComponent {
    render() {
    const textArray = this.props.value.split('\n');
return (
        <View>
            {textArray.map((value) => {
               return <AppText>{value}</AppText>;
            })}
        </View>
    )
}}

Answer 30

React won't like you putting HTML <br /> in where it's expecting text, and \ns aren't always rendered unless in a <pre> tag.

Perhaps wrap each line-breaked string (paragraph) in a <p> tag like this:

{text.split("\n").map((line, idx) => <p key={idx}>{line}</p>)}

Don't forget the key if you're iterating React components.